WATERLOO, ON, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry
Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced enhancements to
its BlackBerry Radar® H2 intelligent, data-driven
asset monitoring devices to help the world's transportation
businesses reduce costs and securely improve the utilization of
their trailers, containers, chassis and other remote assets.
With the intermodal industry facing an unprecedented capacity
crunch and fleets waiting for months on end to receive a new
trailer due to manufacturing bottlenecks, timely and accurate data
that can shed light on where a fleet manager's assets and drivers
are, and how effectively they are being utilized, has never been
more important.
With multi-sensor reporting, the enhanced BlackBerry Radar H2
device expands on the core capabilities of the original to improve
global coverage and connectivity to the latest 4G LTE cellular
networks and bands. The company also bolstered the short-range
wireless communications protocol for connecting to sensors, adding
range and stability and improving compliance with worldwide
standards.
New BlackBerry Radar R2
To support global operations that need enhanced cargo visibility
and control of their shipments, BlackBerry also released the
BlackBerry Radar R2, a unique wireless sensor that uses radar waves
to measures cube space utilization inside a container or trailer,
with the door open or closed.
"As countries struggle to ensure critical healthcare supplies
and essential goods make it to market amid the continuing COVID-19
pandemic, supply chain efficiency and security have never been more
important," said Christopher Plaat,
SVP and GM, BlackBerry Radar. "With the new global enhancements to
our BlackBerry Radar H2 devices, transportation and logistics
businesses the world over can unlock excess shipping capacity they
didn't know they had and gain better visibility into their entire
fleet, both of which are vital during these unprecedented times
when transport companies' role as the lifeblood of our economy is
heightened."
Select trucking companies and private fleet operators are
currently participating in a customer pilot program to trial the
new enhancements that have been made to the BlackBerry Radar H2.
BlackBerry Radar devices are currently operating around the world
including in Europe, Africa, Asia,
the Middle East, South America and North America, respectively.
New Events 2.0 Alerting System
The online end user dashboard has also been enhanced, empowering
teams to better manage their assets based on the information
BlackBerry Radar provides. The new Events 2.0 Alerting
System highlights 'events' within a customer's transportation
ecosystem that are important to their specific business needs,
systematically combing through mounds of asset location and status
data to bring forward actionable intelligence to help solve
problems and drive operational efficiencies. With Events 2.0,
transportation businesses can create custom reporting dashboards
using a combination of data elements – mileage, cargo status,
location, geofence, asset type, asset status and time frame – to
focus on key items of importance that can be monitored for, acted
against and improved upon, whether it be turn times, preventative
maintenance, or unauthorized and underutilized assets.
BlackBerry Radar is an innovative, easy-to-install, asset
monitoring solution that provides information such as location,
motion, mileage, temperature, humidity, door open/close status, and
cargo status on an intuitive on-line dashboard. It collects
significantly more data than conventional GPS-based track and trace
solutions and uses this information to build a 360-degree
visualization of a customer's assets. All data is transmitted and
stored securely on a cloud platform, which maintains the privacy of
user information at all times.
To find out more about BlackBerry Radar, visit
BlackBerry.com/Radar.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security
software and services to enterprises and governments around the
world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 175M cars on the road today. Based in
Waterloo, Ontario, the company
leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions
in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions,
and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security management,
encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear
- to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
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